Share this on WhatsApp 1970 A Lunar “Tablespoonful” “In the broad, flat lunar maria, or ‘seas’ (such as Mare Tranquillitatis, the site of the Apollo 11 manned landing), the depths of craters that have reached bedrock indicate a regolith thickness of from five to 10 meters. Thus the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and […]
Share this on WhatsApp The items below are highlights from the newsletter, “Smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19.” To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign-up here. STAT has published a nicely written, technical piece by Sharon Begley that describes some unusual features of how SARS-CoV-2 infects our cells and hijacks our genes to […]
Share this on WhatsApp The world is in desperate need of protective gear to keep health care workers safe and ventilators to help severely ill COVID-19 patients breathe. In the face of massively increased demand and stalled supply chains, engineers are scrambling to redesign equipment so it can be produced outside of specialized factories. Researchers […]